A Short KS1 Writing unit based on the popular children’s picture book: The Pirates Next Door. The unit inspires quality, structured writing that meets the new KS1 writing KPis at Expected and Greater Depth Level The unit covers: Reading phase: inferring a character’s thoughts and actions Writing with a clear purpose and viewpoint Organising related ideas into sections and paragraphs short openings and endings past tense regular and irregular verbs using capital letters for proper nouns I started this unit with drama - getting into the role of the villagers and focusing on their viewpoint. How were they feeling when the Pirates arrived in town? Why were most villagers angry? What did they think? say? Then they completed the reading inference speech bubbles for 2 different character viewpoints. (see example) Then I held a council meeting for the residents of ‘Dull-On-Sea’ and the children were given a format to record the ‘notes of the meeting’ From the notes- they used a structured letter template to create a letter to the council complaining about the Pirates’ arrival. This was highly successful and created fantastic letters with clear viewpoints. The pack includes: 1x character though bubble recording sheet 1x example speech bubbles inferring a character viewpoint 1x template for council notes recording sheet 1x letter to council template/structured support sheet 1x word mat containing regular past tense verbs and character names from the book to support spelling. Powepoint for guided group work- exploring which phrases are preferable for persuassive writing. utube videolink for the audio book (free link via utube)

Resources to support Quality Narrative Writing based around the Picture Book and short video clip of ‘Journey’ By Aaron Becker All resources designed to support the NEW reading and writing standards for the end of KS1. Includes: *inferring a character’s thoughts and feelings *expanded noun phrases *regular and irregular past tense verbs *selecting appropriate vocabulary to describe setting and characters *organising writing into sections/paragraphs *exclamation sentence writing *suffix -ment endings Pack includes: Speaking and listening phase: Character speech bubbles to describe character thoughts example speech bubble of character thoughts to use as a model text A3 Graphic Organiser planner to plan a narrative story of a section of the book (entering a castle) EXAMPLE NARRATIVE OPENING WITH KEY FEATURES to use as a model Word bank of regular and irregular verbs to support writing suffix: ment word list to support greater depth writers.

5x Reading comprehensions based on Project X Alien Adventures series by Oxford Reading Tree books Turquoise Level Comprehensions cover the Turquoise band books: Attack of the Buzzles Battle with the beast Nurp Stampede The empty palace The trap

KS1 Reading Assessment form to assess Expected Level Reading at end of KS1 based on NEW KS1 Reading KPIs / National Curriculum A 1:1 assessment format for teachers that contains ALL end of KS1 (Year 2) Reading KPIs to meet the Expected Standard Based on popular picture book: This Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown Assessement: Child reads the book 1:1 with teacher (Should be familiar with book and had it read before hand) Assessment sheet designed as tick sheet against national standards for expected level and space to record children's responses to inference questions. This form has been created using the exemplification materials from the STA for reading (online) as a guide and model.

6 x in depth Reading Comprehensions question sheets based on the novel Shadow by Michael Morpurgo. Questions based on NEW end of KS KPIs and based on the new style SATs questions for reading. Covers 5 different sections of the book. Can be used as question sheet to answer independently or prompts for guided reading session.

A selection of poems about earthquakes. Includes: similies, metaphors and personification.

Six reading comprehensions based on The Suitcase Kid Tests a range of the NEW reading kpi statements at UPPER KS2

A Reading activity based on the Traditional tale: Rumpelstiltskin big cat reading books Reading task aimed at Expected Standard NEW curriculum end of Key Stage One Task covers retrieval, inference and personal response/empathy. Quality Questioning task covering key reading skills based on new curriculum for English.

A Reading activity based on Meerkat Mail by Emily Gravett Reading Activity aimed at Expected Standard NEW curriculum end of Key Stage One Task covers retrieval, inference, comparison and personal response. Quality Questioning task covering 3 key reading skills based on new curriculum for English.

2 Resources to support a personal study on a US state, supporting the NEW Geography KS2 Curriculum. 1. An example Travel Guide Text based on the USA State of Montana. Aimed at higher end of expected level. 2. A planning format for students to plan each paragraph of own chosen US State (North America/South America) Students can research chosen state during lessons or for homework using planning frame. Meets many of the NEW English reading and writing KPIs - parenthesis, managing clause structures and manipulating for effect.

Travel Guide Writing Modelled on The Popular destination of Florida- Why Visit? Includes key elements of the NEW Geography KS2 Curriculum: Climate , North America Study, Location, Physical and Human Features and Key landmarks. 1 x written modelled guide based on Florida- Why Visit? 1x Student planner to research own state and provides Key Questions to direct the search and structure own guide. (modelled on teacher example) Writing covers the NEW English KPIs and aimed at higher end of expected standard/ Greater Depth. Features include: Parenthesis- Hyphens, commas, dashes and colons Subordinating Conjunctions Fronted Adverbials Balance of Pronouns for Cohesion Noun phrases

Powerpoint to deliver a KS2/KS3 Whole School or Class Assembly about Racism Includes: definitions of the term collection of poetry link to BBC short video questions prayer

A Reading activity based on the popular picture book: A Squash and a Squeeze by Julia Donaldson 3 key questions aimed at Expected Standard NEW curriculum end of Key Stage One Questions cover retrieval, inference and personal response/empathy. Quality Questioning task covering 3 key reading skills based on new curriculum for English.

2 comprehensions based on the popular book: The day the crayons quit by Oliver Jeffers. The questions cover all strands of the NEW and of KS1 reading national curriculum. Can be used for assessment purposes/evidence of attaining reading skills/performance indicators.

Akimbo and The Lions Reading Comprehension Tasks based on the NEW Reading Curriculum Lower KS2 4x comprehension sheets based on the novel. Aimed at Lower KS2 modelling the new curriculum standards.

An engaging starter to introduce or revisit the teaching of coordinating conjunctions. This resources is a powerpoint slide that encourages children to interpret the picture and use the modelled/structured sentence starters around it to speak and record compound sentences with the cooridinating conjunction and, but, or . Image is taken from picture book 'Quest' by Aaron Becker

A powerpoint that features 3 poems to inspire high level Poetry (theme: Coast) Links to Geography- coastal study. Key questions given to analyse a poem. Provides reading phase: opportunity to look in depth how poets: -Manipulate grammatical structures for deliberate effect -Use precise noun and verb choices to create atmosphere -Use High Level punctuation at the KS2 Greater Depth Standard for deliberate effect (Hyphens, dashes, commas to separate clauses and semi colon.) Children can use the language choices to create own poetry.

Character inference task based on Quest by Aaron Becker New Reading KPIs KS1 Activity sheet to predict what characters may be thinking or saying as they approach a Quest.

A Reading activity based on Mrs Armitage on Wheels Quentin Blake task aimed at Expected Standard NEW curriculum end of Key Stage One/ Lower Key Stage Two Taks is to list What Mrs Armitage needs for her bike and the cause and effect of this. Quality task covering key reading skills based on new curriculum for English.

6 x Reading Comprehension sheets based on the Hunger Games (book 1) Aimed at Level 5 Covers all AFs